Brenna turns 8!!

Today is Brenna's birthday, and she is a big grown up 8 years old. We planned on going to the mall and getting her some of her very favorite pokemon figures, from the little kiosk that sells anime and cartoon figures, which we did, then we had designs on lunch, she of course wanted McDonald's, which i flat out refused, we compromised on pizza at "Spagettiman". It was actually pretty good for a chain restaurant. We also tried to get in to see a movie, Brenna had her mind set on "Hop" I felt that "Rio" would be better...both did not start until 15:00hrs or so...we still had to go to the cable office so we decided on the movies for another day. We came back to the house, got some stuff together for our long wait at the cable office. We took a cab to the office as Brenna was just complaining about the walk. We arrived talked to our contact Issac, and actually got a second TV added to our account in less than an hour, that was really good as I had heard horror stories. We stopped at Hagen Das, who can pass up a Hagen Das visit. I got an espresso, Brenna got a two scoop chocolate cone. We decided to walk back as i wanted to check out this sports store that advertised carrying "Brooks" shoes...we also walked by the Sleeping Buddha Water Festival and Thai Street party. It was awesome!!

Well, we checked out the "Brooks" shoes, and I did not recognize any of them, everyone in the store ignored us, so...we moved on to home, and awaited Roxanne, while Brenna napped. When Roxanne got home, we decided to go down to "Straits Quay" a new restaurant and shopping complex, we had read that they had a "Charlie Brown" restaurant, a theme restaurant around the Peanuts characters. We thought this would be great for Brenna's Birthday. It was not, it was very disappointing as half they menu was not available. So we decided to go to one of the Irish Pubs, Finnegan's. We had a nice meal, some Burgers, Irish Stew, and again ran into the differences between Asia and the US. My meal came first, and Brenna and Roxanne were served about 5 or 10 min after I was. The waiter and the Chef were Extremely Apologetic. To the point where Brenna got a special birthday platter of fries. and we got a picture with our waiter who was great.

His name was Daniel, and he was cool!! We caught a cab home and had some cake, from "Secret Recipe" which was not too bad, not publix, but not bad!! She got her hand sewn hamsters, and she seemed really happy. Rox is now on a work call as I blog today. All in all another great day in Penang. We will get our car tomorrow, which means cab rides are over and the scariest part of this experience for us is about to begin...ignore the rear view mirror is what we have been told. We may go to "Adventure Zone" on Friday with another of Brenna's School mates. Goodnight you guys!!